Exploring the role of contingent instructional staff in undergraduate learning
By: Ernst Benjamin, editor.
Contributors: Benjamin, Ernst, 1937-
Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series; New directions for higher education -- no.123
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty; Community college teachers
Description: From the publisher: The majority of undergraduate instructors hold contingent appointments, a term used here to include not only the non-tenure-track part-time faculty but also many instructional staff who lack faculty status, an increasing proportion of full-time non-tenure track faculty, and a substantial number of graduate student teaching assistants. This volume seeks to foster a dialogue, long overdue, between those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate respect and support to undergraduate instruction and those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate support and respect to the selection and terms and conditions of employment of undergraduate instructors. It may be that the increasing dependence on contingent appointments imperils undergraduate learning no less than it imperils the future of the academic profession.
Notes: "Fall 2003"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: faculty makeover : what does it mean for students? -- Jack H. Schuster; title: Changing relationships, changing values in the American classroom -- Robert B. Townsend; title: Part-time faculty : why should we care? -- Maureen Murphy Nutting; title: Contingent faculty and student learning : welcome to the strativersity -- Karen Thompson; title: How does university decision making shape the faculty? -- John G. Cross, Edie N. Goldenberg -- The; title: choices before us : an administrator's perspective on faculty staffing and student learning in general education courses -- Gary W. Reichard -- A; title: regional accreditation perspective on contingent faculty appointments -- Sandra E. Elman; title: Reappraisal and implications for policy and research -- Ernst Benjamin -- INDEX.